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The Matrix: Revolutions

My wife has been asking when I’m going to post my thoughts on the last Matrix movie, so I guess I will even though I don’t really have anything enlightening to say about it.

We used Fandango to pre-order some tickets to the 5:00pm showing of the movie on its opening day, and I took off work early to go see it. I liked Reloaded, so I was looking forward to seeing the end of the trilogy, just as much as everyone else was I guess. I avoided reading any reviews on the web before I saw it, so that I could make up my own mind about it without influence from “critics” who I knew would be bashing it no matter what, just because it would be nearly impossible to live up to the hype.

So anyway, overall I thought it was a pretty decent movie. It was definitely not what I was expecting though, which made me a little disappointed, especially right after the movie, I didn’t like it at all. But as I’ve read other people’s opinions on the web, they’ve pointed out reasons that this or that happened, which made sense to me and helped me to appreciate the movie more. I was expecting a lot more philosophy stuff like in the second movie, but Revolutions kind of ignored all of that and focused on the battle for Zion instead. There wasn’t as much kung-fu ass kicking in this movie either, instead replaced by the battle at Zion with mechs and Sentinels. That battle was really impressive though, I think I stopped breathing for a while when it got really intense… :)

But this one did seem to have a lot more cheesy dialog than either of the first two, and I would have really liked to have seen things “wrapped up” a little more, rather than leaving most of it to your imagination. I mean sure I like imagining what happens, but what if what I’m imagining is wrong? I’ll never know for sure!

Anyway, it’s a great action film, just a little different than the first two Matrix movies. As long as you go into it with an open mind I think you can enjoy it quite a bit though. I’ve also heard some people saying they liked it a lot better the second time, so perhaps I’ll like it even more when it comes out on DVD and I can watch it a couple more times.